I call the stars my home, because I am far away from home. Most days my mind mothers my heart, shhhh… she tells me, be quiet, no tears will make it better, wipe them off, there’s beauty in the smallness of things. Look at the ant, she is to the world as humans are to […]

Wary of Mainstream Medicine, Immigrants Seek Remedies From Home – The New York Times

By RICHARD SCHIFFMAN November 13, 2015 foto’s: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times On a recent afternoon, Ina Vandebroek was poking around the shelves of La 21 Division Botanica on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Its narrow aisles were crammed with thousands of votive candles, herbal potions and brightly colored plaster statues of saints. Dr. Vandebroek, a […]

Op de achterwand van de klas

Moest ik nog voor de klas staan, ik zou dit schrijven op de achterwand van de klas: Kijk en luister op Youtube naar de volgende opnamen van  Guy Forsyth, Franz Ferdinand, Eric Doyle, White Ladder en kom me vertellen wat u er van denkt.

blog Ina Vandebroek on the doctor’s tablet

http://blogs.einstein.yu.edu/what-medical-students-can-learn-from-traditional-medicine-and-ethnobotanists/ What Medical Students Can Learn from “Traditional” Medicine and Ethnobotanists by Ina Vandebroek, Ph.D. on October 29, 2015 Here’s a question for you: What do botany and healthcare have in common? The answer is: Plants. It is unlikely that a medical student today will be taught about William Withering, or foxglove, even though the […]

Traditions versus Transformations in Ethnobiology: Where do we go from here? – Ina Vandebroek

Dr. Ina Vandebroek Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York, 10458, U.S.A. Increasing mobility, urbanization and modernization, as well as other factors such as climate change, are creating pronounced effects on landscapes and peoples. The science of ethnobiology is uniquely poised to record and understand changes in […]

A Look Inside the Lowline, New York City’s First Underground Park – Stephen Pulvirent

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-10-13/inside-the-lowline-new-york-city-s-first-underground-park It’s not an urban sci-fi fantasy: Someone is actually building a leafy underground park below Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Lowline is a plan to turn an abandoned trolley terminal there into a public green space, using special technology that pipes in sunlight beneath the street’s surface. The real deal probably […]

Herbal recipe to treat malaria earns Nobel Prize – Michael D’Estries

link to the article Youyou Tu of China’s Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been announced as one of three scientists to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine. The 84-year-old medical scientist and pharmaceutical chemist is being recognized for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug that has saved countless lives in the fight against […]